Edward Richard Crosswell, J.P. Whittlesea, was born at Ulandisilio, Wales, in 1827, and received a college education with the intention of his becoming curate to the Rev. D. Lewis, M.A., a connection of the family. In 1856 he left England, and arrived in Hobart Town, Tasmania, from which, on the recommendation of R. Lewis and […]
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Charles Creighton
Charles Creighton, Hazel Glen, was born in Cumberland, England in 1846, and came to Australia in 1852. He first went to Bundoora, and then to his present premises, on which he has been farming successfully for fifteen years. He was married in 1874. From Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present, 1888 by Alexander Sutherland. […]
Horatio Cooper
“Horatio Cooper, Bundoora (deceased) was born in England in 1806, and was married in Tasmania 18th October, 1836, his widow (born in 1816) haveing been in the colony for nine years. They arrived in Melbourne in Janaury 1837, and Mr Cooper commenced a custom-house agency, had charge of Government stores, and control of the rations […]
John Ross and family
Summary Daughters of John Ross with their Aunt Jane McMahon is believed to have been taken around when the youngest was around five years old. That would date the photo as circa 1902. From left to right, it is believed to be Barbara Christina Ross (6), Helen Mary Ross (10), Jane Curtain McMahon (33), Mary […]
Joseph Cleeland
Joseph Cleeland, Epping was born in County Down, Ireland, and arrived in Melbourne, in June 1840, with his parents. In 1852 he was on most of the prominent goldfields – Forest Creek, Castlemaine, and for a number of years was a councillor in the Darebin Shire Council. From Victoria and its Metropolis: Past and Present […]
James Clark
James Clark was born near Whittlesea in 1844, and first started farming there in 1862. After farming for two years, he was engaged in the butchering trade at Glenvale for eight years, when he returned to Whittlesea, and has resided there ever since, carrying on his trade as a butcher. He is married, and has […]
Floridia Cheese
When Mauro Montalto, his wife Carmela and their three young sons migrated to Australia from Sicily in 1952, they brought with them a largely self-sufficient way of life and those aspects of Italian culture that allowed them to survive and at least feel at home in a very different cultural environment. This included the cheese […]
John Bower
Bower, John Thomastown, was born in 1828, in England, and came to this colony in 1848 by the ship Manchester. He acted as cook and hut-keeper on a station for six months, and later, settled at his present location, where he bought 2 acres of land as pounds 32, 10s. per acre, and where he […]
John Batchelor
John Batchelor of Thomastown, was born in Warwickshire, England, in 1851, and came to Victoria in 1857, by the ship Speedy. On leaving school, which he attended at Preston, he spent five years on the Barrabool Hills. He holds his present farm on a seven years’ lease, has four horses and other stock, &c.,, of […]
Coulstock’s Mill
George Coulstock Port Phillip, later to become Melbourne was first permanently settled by the white man in 1835. Very shortly after, in 1837, the first crop of wheat was raised. It was ground into flour by hand-cranked mills, the only option until the first powered mills were built in the 1840’s. In 1833 a George […]